California Public Employees Retirement System increased its holdings in Marriott International by 0.8% in the third quarter. California Public Employees Retirement System now owns 823,377 shares of the company's stock valued at $90,786,000 after buying an additional 6,837 shares during the last
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Uber Technologies Inc. is seeking $1.25 billion in its second foray in the U.S. leveraged loan market, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The ride sharing company has begun approaching loan investors directly to borrow the funds, instead of going through banks, and has scheduled a
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Landlords are arguing that the City Council should remove some housing categories from rent regulation because of the strength of the housing market, primarily apartments in Manhattan and units renting for $2,000 or more. However, housing commissioner Maria Torres-Springer told the Journal that
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Named as the international qualifiers were: Kayla Romer in Business Services Operations Research; Haley Palmer and Peyton Turner in Community Service Project; Grace Broussard, Kyndall Eudy, and Marissa Tyson in Buying and Merchandising Operations Research; Kassie Blum and Karlee Bynum
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Many cultures in Africa, South America and Asia have community lending systems: people group together with others they trust, each member contributes some money, and then each person has a turn to use that money to pay for larger things, like pay for school or even a house. eSusu is an app version
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Disgraced Hollywood exec Harvey Weinstein continues to unload his real estate holdings, selling two neighboring waterfront properties in Westport for a total of $16 million. Weinstein bought the six-bedroom colonial at 26 Beachside in 1994, offloading the 2.38-acre property recently for $10 million.
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Home sales in Toronto and Vancouver are slowing to start 2018, a sign that higher borrowing costs and new rules restricting access to mortgage financing may be starting to have an effect. The central bank said Wednesday it will take time to fully assess the impact of the changes, which also include
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday in an interview with Bloomberg TV that the administration is drafting the official paperwork for the tariffs, and they could be announced as soon as Thursday but also possibly Friday. Mnuchin declined to discuss any specific countries that may be
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RealtyShares, an online marketplace for real estate investing, announced on Wednesday the results from its Commercial Real Estate Investing Survey, which was conducted online among over 2,000 U.S. adults in December 2017 by Harris Poll on its behalf. The results revealed that many Americans
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When Nicole Nuss saw the little yellow house in Vallejo, with its white picket fence and huge yard for her beloved dog, she knew she wanted to live there more than she'd ever wanted anything. But in a real estate market where homes fly off the shelf in days and buyers compete with cash offers that are
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Steady interest rates in the last week saw mortgage rates rising only slightly according to data from the weekly mortgage application survey by the MBA. Data from the market composite index, which is a measure of mortgage loan applications volume, indicated that mortgage applications increased 0.3
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The White House is weighing contenders to succeed Gary Cohn as President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, and names circulating include Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive Jim Donovan, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett, and trade adviser Peter Navarro, people
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Mike Bloomberg Launches STOP, a New Tobacco Industry Watchdog at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health. MAR. 07, 2018. A competitive application process is open to determine the lead organization(s) for Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products (STOP). The global tobacco industry
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This resulted in such an overload of failed mortgage loans and houses that banks backing such loans failed; Even government- backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed as many bailouts took place to prevent bankruptcies. The left tries to blame rich people for all their problems because their envy lets
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Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Wheeler 2017 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note that today's conference call is being recorded with the webcast replay available for the next 90 days. The dial-in details for the replay can be
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White House talks about overhauling the U.S. biofuel mandate are buoying the hopes of refinery workers who fanned out across Capitol Hill on Wednesday to press for changes. Thirty United Steelworkers members from more than a dozen independent oil refineries are lobbying lawmakers and Trump
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David Swensen, Yale's chief investment officer, apologized for his harsh language to student newspaper editors. But he didn't back down on his criticism of the Yale Daily News. In a letter published Wednesday in the paper, Swensen, who manages the $27 billion fund, wrote, âI apologize for the
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The Office of Basic Education Commision (Obec) will cancel its textbook-lending scheme and continue to subsidise a new set of textbooks for all students at primary and secondary levels. Obec secretary-general Boonrak Yodpetch said Wednesday Obec has to cancel the lending scheme that was set to
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Bruno le Maire, Emmanuel Macron's economy minister, has successfully adopted his president's philosophy of en même temps, which literally means âat the same timeâ and in practice means switching from conciliatory to oppositional in extremely short order. The approach was very clearly on show at
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In the past few days, some users of Echo home speakers running Amazon.com Inc.'s Alexa voice-based digital assistant have reported hearing strange laughing noises at random. Some people have said the laughter happened in response to unrelated commands, while others reported that it occurred
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